# Excess data in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860 "2018-08-17T09:14:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Olha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9f8e36/32.png) [@Olha1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Olha1)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860/1 "2018-08-17T09:14:30Z")

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Hi! I have a problem with excess in elasticsearch. When I run logstash with one config file, I have right quantity hits in index. When I have a few config files, which logstash processing, I have the same quantity in each index. How to solve this problem?

green open .kibana 1 0 5 0 40.5kb 40.5kb  
yellow open index1 5 1 492 398 507.2kb 507.2kb  
yellow open index2 5 1 492 0 381.1kb 381.1kb  
yellow open index3 5 1 492 0 382.6kb 382.6kb

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860/2 "2018-08-17T09:51:05Z")

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Logstash concatenates multiple configuration files so unless you use conditionals data from all inputs will go to all outputs.

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**Author:** ![Olha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9f8e36/32.png) [@Olha1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Olha1)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860/3 "2018-08-17T10:07:29Z")

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How to divide pipelines?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860/4 "2018-08-17T10:11:34Z")

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Either you need to use [conditionals](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.3/event-dependent-configuration.html#conditionals) to control the flow of data or use the [relatively new multi-pipeline feature](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.3/multiple-pipelines.html) to separate them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excess-data-in-elasticsearch/144860/5 "2018-09-14T10:11:43Z")

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